All 4 Uses of
compassion
in
The Sunlight Dialogues
- After a moment he forced his eyes open and saw that the man was at the pulpit now, hands closed on the corners, gazing down on him with, it seemed, compassion.†
Chpt 7compassion = sympathy for another's suffering and wanting to help
- Well, I sat down on the door sill—he never bothered to try to push past me any more—and I looked at him, all compassion.†
Chpt 7
- You're bombarded by atoms, colors, smells, textures; torn apart by ancient ideas, appeals for compassion; you twist, writhe, try to make sense of things, you force your riddled world into order, but it collapses, riddled as fast as you build, and you build it all over again.†
Chpt 11
- Full of concern, for whatever else he might be he was a good man, compassionate, quick to forgive a fall.†
Chpt 12 *compassionate = feeling or showing sympathy for another's suffering